Showing posts with label occupational illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label occupational illness. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Protecting Healthcare Heroes: Pandemic Preparedness

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The 2025 Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) report,  The New Face of Pandemic Preparedness , arrives with a sobering message: five ...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

Unmasking Asbestos's Genetic Fingerprint

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The recently published study, "From asbestos exposure to carcinogenesis: Transcriptomic signatures in malignant pleural mesothelioma...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Bird Flu Transmission: Occupational Hazards

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Persons working closely with animals infected with the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) virus, such as dairy cows, poultry, ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Health Care Experts Discuss a COVID Second Wave

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How do we know when the second wave is starting? What should we expect? These are only two of the questions Dr. Chad Kessler , National Prog...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

The Admissibility of Scientific Evidence: A New Evidentiary Standard

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The New Jersey Supreme Court has adopted a new evidentiary standard to evaluate the admissibility of scientific evidence. While expanding t...
Monday, February 26, 2018

Preventing Occupational Disease: NJ Governor Murphy Supports a Fracking Ban

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The State of New Jersey now supports a ban on fracking. NJ Governor Pat Murphy recognized the health and environmental consequences of usi...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Chaos in Workers' Compensation - Raising Medicare's Eligibility Age to 67

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A new issue for workers' compensation programs is  emerging as  the Republicans push forward on their legislative agenda to reform Medi...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Who Is Paying the Bills for Occupational Illnesses and Disease?

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A recently published study from the US Department of Health and Human Services (NIOSH) reports that 45% of emergency room medical expenses f...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

Occupational Illnesses Continue to Unnecessarily Kill Workers

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A recent Letter to the Editor in the New York Times focuses on the fact that US workers continue to suffer from fatal occupational diseases ...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

OSHA Needs To Be Strengthened

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If workplaces were safer then there would be no reason to have a workers' compensation program at all. OSHA , The Occupational Safety an...
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Chamber of Commerce Attempts to Injure Asbestos Victims Further

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Deadly Asbestos The US Chamber of Commerce is now trying to take privacy rig...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Reserves for Asbestos Losses Anticipated to be Deficient

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Fitch Ratings estimates industry asbestos reserves to be deficient by $2 billion to $8 billion at year-end 2011. Asbestos reserves make up ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Five US Airports that Put Employees and Passengers At Risk For Environmental Tobacco Smoke

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Secondhand Smoke Is Deadly Air pollution from secondhand smoke five times hi...